BNY
Director, People Strategy & Advisory
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Job Description
We’re seeking a strategic People Business Partner with a client mindset, deep workforce strategy experience, and strong data fluency to advise our senior leaders and shape the People agenda to accelerate organizational growth, agility, and performance. This role will be in London.
Role Impact
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive-level leaders, co-creating workforce strategies aligned with strategic business priorities, and long-term organizational goals.
- Represent the People Team as the single point of connection to key business stakeholders and Centers of Excellence.
- Collaborate with People Operations, Talent Strategy, Learning, Compensation, Benefits, Thrive Together, and other enterprise partners like Finance and Legal teams to deliver integrated, forward-looking people programs.
- Influence senior leaders with data-driven insights, leveraging workforce analytics, to generate insights, guide talent decisions, and inform workforce planning at enterprise and functional levels.
- Translate complex organizational challenges into actionable, data-supported plans and business narratives.
- Bring a product mindset to the People organization—iterating solutions based on user feedback, data, and evolving business needs to deliver scalable, user-centric, outcome-driven experiences.
- Lead large-scale transformation initiatives, including organizational design, change management, and operating model evolution, to enhance efficiency and cultural effectiveness.
- Provide thought leadership by incorporating external best practices into people strategies.
- Drive cultural evolution and change management efforts that support organizational strategy and employee experience.
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- 12-15+ years of experience within people strategy, organizational development, or change management including 5+ years in a people leadership role, preferably within a platform/product organization.
- Demonstrated ability to influence at senior levels and manage challenging situations.
- Executive presence, sound judgment, and a strong sense of business and organizational dynamics.
- Experience leading workforce strategy, employee experience, product management, and transformation to solve talent challenges and deliver measurable business value.
- Creative problem-solving skills with the ability to see the bigger picture and strategize talent solutions to propel the business forward.
- Strong analytical and data storytelling skills; proficiency with analytic and HR system/tools (such as Excel, Tableau, Visier, or SQL, and HR system).
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree in HR, Organizational Psychology, or Business preferred.
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